Today's Birthdays 7/25
Today's Birthdays 7/25
#0Today's Birthdays 7/25
Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:40pm
Thomas Eakins 07/25/1844 - 6/25/1916 realist painter - saw his show at the Met Museum. His paintings: Walt Whitman, The Thinker, The Clinic of Dr. Gross, The Clinic of Dr. Agnew, Max Schmitt in a Single Scull were very beautiful.
David Belasco 07/25/1853 - May 14, 1931 Producer, Writer, Source Material, Director, Theatre Owner/Operator (what couldn't this guy do?) - MADAM BUTTERFLY (THE orig.); THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST; ZAZA (loved the Claudette Colbert movie version); DUBARRY. This fella just didn't stop, no wonder he got his own theater!
Walter Brennan 07/25/1894 - Sep 21, 1974 performer - Another great character actor! Academy Award-winning actor: Come and Get It [1936], Kentucky [1938], The Westerner [1940]; The Tycoon, To Rome with Love, The Real McCoys, The Guns of Will Sonnett; singer: Old Rivers, Dutchman’s Gold, Mama Sang a Song
Jack Gilford 07/25/1908 - 6/2/1990 performer, Madeline's hubby & Mary Cleere Haran's ex-father-in-law, black-listed during McCarthy-ism - THEY SHOULD HAVE STOOD IN BED (Sandy Meisner, William Foran); DIARY OF ANN FRANK, FORUM (understudy: Marie Santell, Don Pippen's ex; replacements Dick Shawn, Erik Rhodes); DRINK TO ME ONLY (Tom Poston); 1969 3 MEN ON A HORSE; ROMANOFF & JULIETTE; THE SUPPORTING CAST (Sandy Dennis, Betty Garrett, Hope Lange, Joyce Van Patten); THE WORLD OF SHOLEM ALEICHEM (Andy Gale [I love this guy, we did MUSIC IN THE AIR together]), tv's & film's Cocoon series, Arthur 2: On the Rocks, Caveman, Wholly Moses!, Save the Tiger, Catch-22, Enter Laughing, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, The Duck Factory, The David Frost Revue, The Arrow Show
Thomas Barbour 07/25/1921 performer - ONE NIGHT STAND ([never opened] Charles Kimbrough, Jack Weston, Kate Mostel); The Great White Hope (James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Hector Elizondo, Gil Rogers)
Estelle Getty 07/25/1923 performer - TORCH SONG TRILOGY; the mother of all GOLDEN GIRLS; Golden Palace, Tootsie, Mask, Mannequin; workout video: Young at Heart Body Conditioning.
Annie Ross 07/25/1930 Jazz Diva! I can never listen to "1 Meatball" w/o thinking of her
Barbara Harris 07/25/1935 performer, dir. - FROM THE 2ND CITY (Alan Arkin, Severn Darden); MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN (Anne Bancroft, Zohra Lampert, John Randolph, Gene Wilder, understudy-Estelle Parsons); ON A CLEAR DAY; THE APPLE TREE; THE PENNY WARS; film's Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Peggy Sue Got Married, Plaza Suite, A Thousand Clowns
Paul Collins 07/25/1937 performer - ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN; EMINENT DOMAIN (Philip Bosco, written by Percy Granger)
Robert Burke 07/25/1948 performer - ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (Sam Waterston, Lizbeth MacKay)
Lynn Eldredge 07/25/1953 performer - ON THE WATERFRONT
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1968 Lovers (w/Art Carney, Beulah Garrick, Fionnuala Flanagan)
- Losers
- Winners
1975 After a smash run at the Public Theatre in New York City, the Marvin Hamlisch-Edward Kleban musical A Chorus Line makes the move uptown to Broadway's Shubert Theatre. The Michael Bennett-helmed show, including such songs as "What I Did for Love" and "One," features Donna McKechnie, Carol (later Kelly) Bishop and Robert LuPone. A Chorus Line will truly prove to be, as its lyrics say, "one singular sensation," racking up 6,137 performances to become Broadway's longest running show up to that time. (In June 1997, Cats will break that record with 6,138.) A 1985 film version of A Chorus Line, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, will feature Michael Douglas and Terrence Mann in its cast.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1939 - W2XBS TV in New York City presented the first musical comedy seen on TV. The show was Topsy and Eva.
1956 - 52 of the 1,662 passengers and crew on board the Andrea Doria died in a collision with the Swedish-American liner Stockholm near Cape Cod. Launched on June 16, 1951 and named after a famous Italian admiral, the Andrea Doria was Italy’s most luxurious liner. For three years the Andrea Doria reigned supreme on the Atlantic cruise routes while gaining the moniker ‘Grand Dame of the Sea’. At 11:10 p.m., sixty miles from Nantucket Island, the heavily reinforced bow of the Stockholm tore through the starboard side of the Andrea Doria. Thanks to the ship’s S.O.S. signals, a group of ships soon arrived and provided much-needed lifeboats to complete the abandonment of the Andrea Doria. Newsmen and cameras caught her eventual fate and the entire world listened on the radio as she slid beneath the waves to settle in 225 feet of water at 10:09 a.m. All of the 52 who were lost died as a direct result of the initial collision.
1978 - The first test-tube baby was born -- in England. Louise, a daughter born to Lesley and Gilbert Brown, was the first baby conceived outside the mother’s body.
1992 Broadway star Alfred Drake, 78, is dead today. Born Alfred Cappuro, Drake went on to star in the original productions of such Broadway musical classics as Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate, and Kismet. For a time in 1953, Drake replaced Yul Brynner as the King of Siam in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King And I, a role he had turned down when the show was first being produced.
1996 Tony Award-winning musical star Patti LuPone returns to the Broadway stage tonight in Terrence McNally's Master Class. Taking over the reins from the play's original Tony Award-winning star, Zoe Caldwell, LuPone is said to speed up the evening's proceedings significantly, due to her fast-paced interpretation. When LuPone finishes her run as opera diva Maria Callas in this Tony-winning play, stage and television star Dixie Carter will become the third -- and final -- actress to play Callas on Broadway. Faye Dunaway will play the part on tour.
(sources: IBDB, NYT On This Day, & 440.com’s Those Were The Days, playbill.com)
Milla
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Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:34pmAwwww... Estelle Getty! I WISH I could have seen her in Torch Song... I love that show :)
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